Arts & Events

It has been suggested that we exist in one of multiple universes. The Berkeley edition we seem to share is all too real, where civic passions often meet like a rubbing of sandpapers instead of cosmic inter-dimensionality.

Insight to a parallel world so similar as to be preferable at times has been brought to us, through which the lower campus of UC is revealed to be a golf course. These glimpses have reached us through the monthly foldover known as Pepper Spray Times. Dismissed (even by its editor) as a satire to spare us the truth of an alternate existence, its continuous and independent coverage of the otherworldly familiar since 1995 makes it the dean of all city news periodicals!

PST has provided coverage from the beyond of the local real-world outrages in a breezy to-the-point style reminiscent of old Shopping News fillers and progressive tabloids. When gathered in the new and complete two-volume collection Pepper Spray Paradise, however, we come to see these revelations not so much as porch-flier prose as Biblical writ. -more-

Most Americans think of Agent Orange as something from the distant and disagreeable past—as dated as hippie vans and tie-dyed T-shirts. But the truth is that Agent Orange is still with us. And will be for decades to come. -more-

Worth Noting:

Another full week ahead

Monday - At the 2:30 pm Agenda Planning Committee Item 6 Objective Standards for the Implementation of State Housing Law is listed as consent, it should be an action item as the committee assigned to establish objective standards did not reach agreement. Objective standards take on critical importance with the increasing number of proposals for ministerial approval (no public review) of major projects. The Agenda Committee may take up reorganizing Commissions. Those with concerns about the various proposals for restructuring should attend and be prepared to speak.

Tuesday – Regular City Council meeting at 6 pm

Wednesday – If you want to know more about what is happening with housing, watch the very interesting documentary film PUSH. BCA is sponsoring the virtual screening

Thursday – The Reimagining Public Safety Task Force meets at 6 pm

Saturday – BNC meets at 10 am. The new Police Accountability Board that we approved by ballot initiative is explained at 4 pm.



If you have a meeting you would like included in the summary of meetings, please send a notice to kellyhammargren@gmail.com by noon on the Friday of the preceding week. -more-